*the German word "Fernweh" signifies an aching for the far-away, a painful longing to be far away. It is the inverse of "Heimweh" homesickness, aching for home.

2015-02-21

Katrin Ströbel

A postcard from KATRIN STRÖBEL sent from Stuttgart, Germany. Katrin lives and works in Stuttgart (D), Nice (F) and on travels. She studied visual art, intermedia arts and literature. She holds a PhD in art history and teaches since 2013 as professor for drawing at Villa Arson, école nationale supérieure d'art Nice, France.

Katrin's drawings, installations and videos deal with semiotics, the relation of words and images, (pictorial) languages and cultural codes. Through travel grants and longer stays in Europe but also Africa and America since 2004 (France, Morocco, Nigeria, Senegal, South Africa, the U.S. and Peru among others), her work has included more and more intercultural and socio-political questions like impacts of urbanism and architecture, migration, borders, intercultural communication. Besides these rather political or cultural themes, an important subject has been the basic reflections of the meaning and function of contemporary art in so called "western" and "non-western" contexts. Above all Katrin is the founder of "lininenscharen", Stuttgart based platform and network for contemporary drawing. http://www.katrin-stroebel.de

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Heimweh_Homesickness is the corresponding mail-art project to Fernweh*the good life : All Fernweh-artists have been invited another time to send a postcard to Anke's Berlin address, with the subject "Heimweh - Homesickness" All Fernweh & Heimweh postcards will be exhibited at tête from January 16 - 17, 2016.

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Fernweh* the good life is a mail-art project by the German artist Anke Becker, created on the occasion of an artist residency at the KHN Center for the Artsin Nebraska City, USA / January and February 2015.

A selected, international group of visual artists and writers has been invited by Anke to send a postcard to her in Nebraska with their very own interpretation of "Fernweh..the good life". In return, every participant will receive a similar, one-of-a-kind postcard from Nebraska City.